thedaniel

This is a follow-up to http://www.spire.io/posts/web-capabilities.html - My only regret is not calling the server that holds the capabilities the "mothership", in hopes that this can be someday called the Mothership Pattern.

Colloquy can be pretty bad, but I've been satisfied using either Adium's IRC support (though I wish I could easily block the server message / nickserv spam) or LimeChat, which was the simplest/fastest standalone OSX IRC client at the time I was using a standalone client.

My favorite thing about this library is the on: {200: callback, 204: someOtherCallback} interface for handling various responses.

10 points to Griffindor for the Knylefile.

thanks for the feedback, points duly noted.

Thank you for the feedback!

That's not to say I didn't sweat any of the details! But I think news.yc gets that 1.0 == MVP

I haven't added a web interface yet - though if enough people like the concept enough to use the app and many of them want a web interface, I would happily add it to the roadmap.

and yes, it creates plain text files.

The main difference is that interface, and that it acts on a folder of simple text files rather than its own database format. I personally choose to use it because I prefer my notes to be text files so I can easily edit them with Notational Velocity on my mac, and emacs on any machine I have Dropbox connected to. It may be that the many features of Evernote are better for you - I personally used a variety of note-taking apps and just kept coming back to NV, so I wrote a companion for my phone.

Offline support is definitely feature #1 in the roadmap right now. I just wanted to get a 1.0 out the door to see if the app met a need before I spent a lot of time on the details, plus iOS 5's uncertain treatment of app temporary directories made my initial approach less simple than I had hoped.

I wrote this because I had the exact same need. When you connect it to Dropbox, you can choose any of the folders there, and if there are already .txt files in that folder, they will be listed.

I would gem install twss

http://rubygems.org/gems/twss

Groove Salad: http://somafm.com/

Cliqhop (also somaFM) if the problems are complex.